Busted

<br>The bills are all due and my baby need shoes but I`m busted<br>Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I`m busted<br>I got a cow that`s gone dry and a hen that won`t lay<br>A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day<br>The county will haul my belongings away I`m busted<br>I called brother Bill to get me a loan I was busted<br>For I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I`m busted<br>But Bill said that there ain`t a thing I can do<br>My wife and my kids`re all down with the flu<br>And I was just thinking of calling on you I`m busted<br>[ fiddle ]<br>Now Lord I`m no thief but a man can go wrong when he`s busted<br>The food that we canned last summer is gone I`m busted<br>The fields`re all bare and the cotton won`t grow<br>Me and my family`s got to pack up and go<br>But I`ll make a living the Lord only knows I`m busted